Vale, Wendell Berry

Poet-environmentalist, inspiration to so many, died recently aged 92. Thank you Donna Carey for bringing his work to my attention.

Read a memorial essay here: https://comment.org/wendell-berrys-difficult-hope/

Some of his poems:

‘The Vacation’
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56192/the-vacation-56d238779b2aa

‘Prayer After Eating’, and ‘Anger Against Beasts’:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=119&issue=2&page=9

Six interconnected poems, written near the end of his life:
https://www.plough.com/articles/six-new-poems-by-wendell-berry

You can find more of Berry’s work, as well as articles about it, at The Poetry Foundation.

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